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Trouble In Paradise

Peter Ackroyd Sweet Dreams Michael Frayn (Collins £2.00) Forever Panting Peter De Vries (Gollancz E2.20) I have only two claims as a reviewer of recent fiction. I have never......

Cautionary

Irish tale • P.S.L. Lyons E ducation and Enmity: The Control 'of Schooling in Northern Ireland, 1920-50 D. H. Akenson (David and Charles, Barnes and Noble E4.95) Grim as are the......

The Cruel Decade Francis Clifford

Memoir of a Revolutionary Milovan Djilas (Harcourt Brace Jovanivich, New York £4.75) The past, it was once memorably averred, is a foreign country: they do things differently......